University News
Breaking developments, leadership announcements, and policy changes from across Harvard’s schools and administration.
Lafayette’s Unexpected Gift to George Washington: Pheasants
The two birds will be on display at Harvard this summer.
Harvard President Faust stepping down 2018
An expected transition, as the University’s twenty-eighth president plans to conclude her service.
Library of Congress names Harvard alumna Tracy K. Smith as new Poet Laureate
The announcement comes at a busy time for the writer, who is at work on two operas and will soon publish her fifth verse collection, Wade in the Water.
Harvard launches engineering-business degree
A new joint business-engineering master’s program to accelerate innovation, entrepreneurship, and leadership for technology companies
Fred Glimp, a Harvard legend, dies at 91
The long-serving dean and vice president was a proud member of the College’s “Great Middle Class.”
Harvard graduate-student unionization
The status of a contested election
Harvard faculty diversity
Documenting a decade of gradual evolution in the professoriate
University People
New Board of Overseers leaders, top teachers, Pulitzer Prize winners, and more
Harvard College quantitative requirement
The vexatious business of defining a gen-ed course in quantitative literacy
Harvard College final club sanctions
The College’s final-club sanctions: an update
Harvard Law dean, House leaders, executives’ compensation
New Law School dean, new House leaders, Harvard’s top salaries, and more